Swimmer injured in shark attack at beach near Camp Pendleton

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — A shark attacked a woman wading in the ocean with friends, tearing away part of her upper thigh while at a popular Southern California beach, authorities and witnesses said Sunday. The attack occurred Saturday near San Onofre State Beach in northern San Diego County. "All of the back of her leg was kind of missing," Thomas Williams, one of several witnesses who pulled the woman ashore, told the Orange County Register . "If she didn't receive immediate care, it was life-threatening." Williams said the woman was conscious and talking while onlookers used a rubber surfboard leash as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. "She was not calm, of course," he said. "But she was coherent." The beach is adjacent to the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base. Marine Sgt. Asia Sorenson said the victim — a civilian — was airlifted to a hospital in unknown condition. A si...